awaited plans

i have exciting news, i will be moving soon!!!!! well, not exactly soon, but in a couple months and i am so excited about it! not because i have to pack everything up and drag it around, but because i finally get to have plants again! i have been dying with this apartments inability to get any sunlight. my lovely orchid, lola, died within a week and i was devastated. but hopefully where i will be moving too, will have a north or east window and allow me to have two more orchids! along with start my herb garden. i cant wait to get out of the dreariness! i really need to have sunshine in my life and this apartment has not been good to me or my plants. goodbye rainy day everyday, hello sunshine!

i was so excited about this move that i gave it a jump start and went to the fort worth orchid society's orchid sale and came home with two new beauties thanks to dave! thank you so much dave!

i knew that if i waited until after i moved to get my orchids that i would have to wait until around january or so to get them and i just could not wait that long. i am so excited to have my "children" back. i know that a lot of people feel like they are missing something when they do not have a dog or a cat. that is how i feel without an orchid. i love them so very much!

my mom will be taking care of them until i move so that they will not die in my sunless apartment. i think she is a little nervous about it, but i have let her know exactly how to take care of them so i think she will be fine watching them for this short time.

the first one that i found was ingrid. she has some of the most beautiful coloring i have ever seen with a pale yellow backgroud on each petal with purple stripes and solid purple in the middle. so lovely!

dorothy is a different species that i am not very familiar with, but am very excited about! she is a heartier orchid and can take more sunlight than ingrid can. she blooms twice a year and has a bulb where water is stored and thicker leaves which allow her to live in a pot outside until a freeze comes through. the bulbs end up multiplying and hopefully in a few years i will have 20 or so blooms in a pot! i have a picture of what the blooms on her "mother plant" look like and they are just beautiful! they are very different from your typical orchid blooms and are in the same color scheme as ingrid. they are bright yellow in the center and then fade into purple on the edges. dorothy's species apparently smell very good too. i cant wait to watch her grow!

while i was potting my beautiful new plants, i went ahead and transferred mine and my sister's pine trees to larger pots. i think they enjoy it.

now that i have all my lovelies, is it time to move yet?! i cant wait!!!!

love.